The addition of Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court may result in the very permissive abortion regime that was introduced by the Roe V Wade ruling in 1973 being curbed by the Court, according to an article in the New York Times.

The piece listed three ways the court could intervene to change the law and restrict abortion. The most likely and least far-reaching would be to allow Roe v Wade to stand but also allow individual states to provide some protections to the unborn child. The next possibility would be to overturn Roe v Wade and thereby revert back to the situation prior to 1973, when each state had its own unique law (unless that state law has been updated since). A third possibility, the least likely and what would be the most disruptive would be for the Court to declare unborn human life to have rights that thereby restrict or would outright prohibit abortion.